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Miss Blyth’s Daily Challenge

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Happy Thursday! I have an art challenge for you today. I was so excited to see all the amazing responses to last week’s art challenge, keep up the hard work!

Today’s art challenge is to draw a squiggle on your page and see if you can create a piece of art from it. Sometimes it helps to turn your page around to see it from a different angle. Here’s my squiggle:

And here is the drawing I created from it! I had to turn my face until my squiggle was on its side, and then I used it as the muzzle of a dog! I’d love to see what you come up with – P3C can share with Mrs Dunsmore on Twitter @MrsLDee, P3B and P3A can share their responses with me on Twitter @MissBlyth1 and P4/3 can share their responses on Teams!

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Miss Blyth’s Daily Challenge

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It’s Wednesday! Lots of fun Fitness Fortnight activities to be trying today!
Today for my daily challenge I would like you to complete the sums below with either the +, -, x or ÷ symbols. You can double check them by completing the sums!
1) 50 ___ 10 = 5
2) 17 __ 2 = 34
3) 123 __ 16 = 107
4) 123 __ 16 = 139
Try creating a few of your own questions, too!
Edited to add answers:
  • 50 _÷_ 10 = 5
  • 17 _x_ 2 = 34
  • 123 _–_ 16 = 107
  • 123 _+_ 16 = 139
Additionally,  @DYWWestLothian are running a competition for pupils to get involved in the Key Workers campaign.
The competition closes week beginning 1/6.
Pupils can take part in the following ways;

Activity 1 – Design your own key worker

Using our template, young people can design what a key worker in their area looks like.  Remember to upload completed designs week commencing Monday 1st June 2020 and tag us @DYWWestLothian, @simpsonprimary and @missblyth1/@MissLDee

Activity 2 – Create your own key worker poem

We want to encourage young people to write their own key worker poem using our template. Remember to post completed poems on social media week commencing Monday 1st June 2020 and tag us @DYWWestLothian, @simpsonprimary and @missblyth1/@MissLDee

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Miss Blyth’s Daily Challenge

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We hope you had an amazing Sports Day yesterday – we were all so impressed with your scores and pictures. Keep up the hard work and enjoy the rest of the Fitness Fortnight activities that are planned for the rest of the week!

My challenge for you today is to think back over the spelling words we’ve been learning and see if you can figure out what these jumbled up words are. I’ll post the answers at the end of the day!

Edited to add answers:

against                                  agiastn

began                                   benag

children                                cildrneh

door                                      droo

every                                    ervey

fight                                       fhigt

great                                     gtrea

happened                           hdappene

inside                                    idnsie

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Miss Blyth’s Daily Challenge

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Happy Friday! Welcome to the last day of Fitness Fortnight week 1. We’ve been so impressed by how enthusiastic you’ve all been and the amazing level of participation on Twitter. Keep up the hard work!

Today I am challenging you to revise your knowledge of pattern. Below are three sequences of shapes. I’d like you to continue the pattern for three more steps. Then create your own pattern and challenge someone else to continue it!

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P3 Miss Blyth’s Daily Challenge

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Morning everyone! I hope you’re all having fun completing your Fitness Fortnight activities! Today’s PE challenge looks like a great one and can be found here: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/simpsonps/2020/05/21/pe-daily-challenge-day-17/

I’ve got a little art challenge for you to try today. Choose an object in your house like a teddy or bottle. Split your paper into four rectangles. In each box, draw the same object in a different way.

1 – in under 20 seconds. 2 – upside down. 3 – eyes closed. 4 – with the hand you don’t write with. Here’s my attempt:

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P3 Daily Challenge

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I’ll be posting a daily challenge here and on my twitter account @missblyth1. It is not compulsory – just for a little bit of fun and variety! If you complete any of the challenges, you can tweet them to me @missblyth1 (remember not to name your child if they are in the picture) or comment on the challenge post! Today we have some subtraction questions to challenge you to use the jump and split strategies. If you need a reminder of those strategies, look at Miss McGregor’s blog post here: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/simpsonps/2020/04/03/a-message-for-p3a-2/

I’ll tweet/comment the answers later!

Edited at 14:30 to add solutions below:

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P3 Week 5 Home Learning Activities

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Hi everyone! Welcome to another week of home learning. Monday and Tuesday are days you would normally be off school due to the May holiday, so do not feel pressured to do normal schoolwork on those days! However, in case you are looking for some fun activities to fill your day with, we have included some suggestions on the timetable you can do if you wish! As always, this timetable is merely a suggestion, and you can do the activities in any order you wish, whenever you get the chance.

P3 Week 5 Home Learning Grid

P3 Week 5 RME Science Social Science and French

Maths blog post wb 4 5 20

P3 Other Curricular Areas wb 4 5 20

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Online Resources

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Hi everyone! Hope you’re getting on well. I just wanted to pop on to list a few extra resources which we’ve found that might be helpful!

BBC Bitesize have been posting daily lessons and challenges, like this maths challenge here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zbqrcqt
There’s loads of variety of topics and activities on the website.

West Lothian have created a resource with weekly challenges to keep everyone inspired: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/stayinspired/challenges-2/

Topmarks have lots of games and resources that can be sorted by topic or  by level, including P3B’s favourite Hit The Button!
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

For reading, Oxford Owl has a fantastic free library of ebooks that can be sorted by age or by ORT stage. You need to make a free account to access the ebook library but it is completely free to access! https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/

I have been posting daily challenges on my Twitter account @missblyth1 which everyone is welcome to access and try out too!

I hope this has been useful, and keep up the hard work everyone! We are so proud of everything you’ve been doing to keep your brains engaged and learning over the last few weeks!

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P3 – Holidays Home Learning

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Happy Friday everyone! It’s nearly time for the Easter holidays! We know that most of you will be at home and sometimes it can get a bit tricky to think of new activities to do. We have made up a grid for you to use over the next couple of weeks to give you some ideas of great activities you can do that will be really fun and engage your brain! There is no pressure to do all/any of these activities, but if you’re looking for some ideas, check out the grid below! 🙂

Home Learning Ideas